Charas Chain Game 4 Official Thread (Complete)

[Prpl_Mage]

We started this week, but no biggie since I had my things planned out. But I really like to see this progressing.

[Fisherson]

Heh sounds like it's still moving along. I'm just curious to see what all ya'll have done to it since me and Purps. I only have the second chapter backed up. <.< Would be nice to have more since my laptop can use Wi-Fi and isn't as unrelliable as the dial up. IE: I can DL when I want to. Heck I MAY be able to do the last chapter in traditional style of the guy who started it usually ends it.  Though not till I get my Infran Veiw and get used to using RPG maker on a laptop XD

[zuhane]

I would love to do some music for this game if you guys wanted anything relaxing/ambient/acoustic.

[Prpl_Mage]

I would love to do some music for this game if you guys wanted anything relaxing/ambient/acoustic.

Do it

[DragonBlaze]

Alright update, it's going to be another month... Haha just kidding, I only have two or three hours left, so if I have time to work on it tomorrow to work on it I'll finish it tomorrow, otherwise Sunday at the latest. I just need to add a bit dialogue and balance some AI variables. Unfortunately I have very little time on weekdays to work on this, and I discovered that adding too many entities to my custom battle scenes killed performance. I was able to fix the performance issues by decreasing the time of each update loop by 250%, which should hopefully perform good on any computer. With those adjustments though mean I have to update all of the AI velocities, acceleration, and weapon cool down rates, but it's just a matter of trying different values until everything seems right.

I wish I could have developed characters a bit more, but I've had this game for far too long, and I want to hand it off ASAP.

[Zoltar]

Wow! Um... So this is still going? That's amazing. Can't wait to try since I only got to play two so far but they were both satisfying.

[DragonBlaze]

Done!

Well I finished and passed the game along, but my custom system performed poorly on a second computer when I tested it. Because of this I added some different performance settings, but I have no idea what adjustments are needed for different computers. Because of this, I would like some people to test the game!  I'll just include one level of the custom system, explain how to adjust the graphics settings, and ask for you to tell me how it works and performs on each of the three settings, as well as what type of CPU your computer has.

[Momeka]

All right, got the game.

I'll be away the two coming weekends and unsure how much time I will have to work on it during the weekdays. But I'll try to have it done pretty soon.

Should I use the old rpg maker 2K3 or the steam version?

[DragonBlaze]

You should be able to use either. I have two computers, on one I used the official steam version, and on the other I used the "other" version.  if you try to open the steam version in the other version, it will throw some sort of error about the RTP. To fix it, all you need to do is edit the RPG_RT.ini and add the line "FullPackageFlag=1". It seems every time you run the steam version, it removes that line, but if you run the non steam version, it keeps that line and keeps working. If anyone wants to use the steam version, just make sure to add that line when you pass it on. It seems like rm2k3 may have removed it on me, so you or prpl may need to add it again if you don't have the steam version.

Being away for two weekends is fine, it may give me time to fix any performance issues that people have before you start development :p (hopefully there aren't any)

[Prpl_Mage]

Just wanted to say great job to everyone who has made a chapter so far. I couldn't help myself from playing it-

[Fisherson]

Just wanted to say great job to everyone who has made a chapter so far. I couldn't help myself from playing it-

I would have done so as well but nobody sends me backups anymore! xD Which is anoying since I can DL them with ease as I'm sure I've said twice now probably.

[Momeka]

Hey guys, quick update. I've started playing the game. Gonna try to play through it this week so I can get started working on my chapter next week. Also is there any docs to write down bugs and mistakes at or should I just ignore them?

[Prpl_Mage]

I have a few written down but no Drive file that we can all edit.

[Momeka]

Hey, I just played through the game. Sorry it took so long, had my hands full the last two weeks but I got more free time now. And great job everyone.

I'll get started on my chapter tomorrow.

[Moosetroop11]

Sweeeet.